"What I would recommend about that is inviting the pharaoh's dad to learn your language from you and then show him the weird foreign magic tricks. He'll pay you for it and then if you're willing to live like a commoner you're set for life. If you are not willing to live like a commoner you are only set for a shorter period of time, though, I don't know what standard of living you're accustomed to - plausibly still long enough to learn a local language, Osiriani if you want to stay in this country and Taldane if you want to go across the Inner Sea."

"I don't consider my standards of living high, but that is not an accurate measure, even living in the same world.

I would not be very eager to interact with royal families in a theocracy, especially when lacking information about new a world, to avoid offending anyone.
But if, indeed, there is a way to invite him, and he has a lot of money, and sees learning a language and seeing the magic as worth this money to him, which would grant me the resources to start adapting before I can start producing value, presumably by developing something magical, as that's the main thing I am good at...well, that would be, not just 'very good', it would be...Deeply Efficient as a way for the world to be configured so that most potential value is produced!
Applying to me, that is, not sure if it is that optimal for everyone in the world. But nothing is."

"I taught him Drow and he paid me market rate for my time, which is pretty high since I'm a third circle wizard. He'd probably pay you at least that much - you don't have as many other ways to sell your time, but there also aren't millions of you underground who could provide the same service. He isn't touchy or anything, he just really likes languages. I can send him a note about it for you."

"That is very great, thank you so much!"
Very fortunate coincidence. Maybe even implausible, but he can't judge plausibility not having information on the world, and having a long stay in the previous one. Still things...wrong, unsettling, metaphysically, to his Intuition. Not very wrong, though, only slightly.

"Don't remember if I have any other important topics to ask about. But could answer questions. Or just keep talking about anything, I usually do it by myself even if nobody is listening."

"You should ask questions till Tongues runs out and then you can ramble when I can't talk to you intelligibly any more."

"Oh, that's right. I am stupid about things sometimes.
What makes Wizards more 'academic' than Sorcerers? How does that work? And what circumstances make you unusually a sorcerer and a wizard?"

"Sorcerers know only a few spells. Don't prepare them, just cast them spontaneously, much harder to learn new ones on purpose. Sorcery ability is inborn - some people don't discover it till later in life, but usually it's obvious in childhood, I was. So I did sorcery for a while, but I'm actually over a century old - drow are a kind of elf and elves have long childhoods and long lives. So I had plenty of time to also pick up wizardry, which anyone smart enough can, and I was second circle in both before I came to the surface. My mother was supportive of all this educational investment for reasons of her own, not everyone is so lucky."

"Wait! If I can't understand you you can't ask questions either! Took me several seconds to realize.

'Anyone smart enough can pick up wizardry' is very interesting, and may mean important things about either the magical nature of people here, or the source of energy."

"If you can't understand me I can still write down questions for later. I guess I can also do that with your questions, but still."

"That's fair. Do you know anything about...best way to say this...background energy, places that are more magical, level to which magic is or isn't present?"

"There are ley lines. Worth knowing how to use if you're going to be right on top of one for long enough, but I never have been."

"Intensity of background magic was one of the main things I studied. It...I don't have the tools to really check, my senses are not that reliable, but it feels like the background here is slightly higher than in the previous world. Around 1.3 Illamars, maybe. Though that probably doesn't tell you anything."

"Huh. There are also dead magic zones - there are demiplanes made to be that way, and places where it happened for other reasons like the Mana Wastes. I guess it's possible you're from a world that's mostly dead-magic."

"Oh, no, we have some of those, if I understood the meaning correctly.
Dead magic is 0 Illamars.
But not everything is like that. The average is about 0.9. As I said, slightly higher."

"Huh. We don't have any measurements as precise as that such that I've heard of them, but I haven't heard of everything."